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Mavi announced his new album Shadow Box last month with the release of the extremely low-key lead single “Drunk Prayer.” Today he adds another advance track, “i’m so tired.” Compared to the last song, this one is high-energy, but it’s still pretty minimal, with Mavi rapping over a deconstructed beat in that drum-free post-Roc Marci lane.  » Read More

Former child star JoJo Siwa has spent this year infuriating various segments of society. In April she riled up many with the laughable suggestion in a Billboard interview that she was creating a “new genre,” gay pop, which necessitated some damage control. She caught flack from KISS fans for stage makeup that closely resembled the rock band’s iconic look,  » Read More

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music,  » Read More

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour came to Singapore for six shows in March. Thanks to an exclusivity deal the city-state’s government struck with concert promoters, those were the tour’s only stops in Southeast Asia. Other nations in the region were not pleased with this arrangement, which left them on the outside looking in as Singapore profited from the pop mega-star’s presence.  » Read More

Billie Eilish is doing all the chicken-related YouTube talk shows this week.  » Read More

Gardens & Villa, a band we blogged about relentlessly in the 2010s but haven’t checked in on in almost a decade, have announced a new album today. (Looks like we only missed one LP, the punny, pandemic-era Gordon Von Zilla Presents.) The fifth Gardens & Villa full-length, Ultra Terrestrial,  » Read More

A concept album that reckons with his controversies while taking pains to create new ones—crudely invoking the Diddy hotel video and “woke BS” and mock-dissing Kendrick and Kanye  » Read More

The stroke led to an overnight hospitalization, with Argent’s doctors advising multiple months of rest and recuperation  » Read More

They claim the restaurant chain parodied their iconic music video and used the song in a 2022 ad without permission  » Read More